Hundreds missing after Rohingya refugee boat capsizes in Andaman Sea: UN
The UN and International Organization for Migration said about 250 people, including children, are feared missing.
![Activists gather in Buffalo, New York’s Elmwood Village neighbourhood following the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a near-blind refugee from Myanmar who was missing since his release from a jail into the custody of the US Border Patrol, and who was later found dead on Feb. 26, 2026. [Craig Ruttle/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-1772224025.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Gambian Justice Minister and Attorney General Dawda Jallow sits in the courtroom, next to lawyer Arsalan Suleman, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) starts hearings in a landmark case brought by The Gambia, which accuses Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya, a minority Muslim group, in The Hague, Netherlands, on January 12, 2026 [Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2026-01-12T094241Z_1499227565_RC2LZIAI6JY3_RTRMADP_3_MYANMAR-ROHINGYA-WORLD-COURT-1768496092.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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UN’s top court to hold Myanmar genocide hearings in January
Witnesses from Myanmar’s Rohingya community will also address closed-door ICJ hearing.
Rohingya refugee bride Mushorofa is escorted by her father to her husband's house on her wedding day in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Rohingya refugee girls attend a class at their school in the Rohingya refugee camp. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Rohingya refugees carry food rations in Cox's Bazar. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
An aerial view of a Rohingya refugee camp, home to more than a million of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority, is pictured in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Ten-year-old Rohingya refugee Mohammed Arfan, left, sells snacks in Cox's Bazar. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
A Rohingya refugee boy plays with a football inside a Rohingya refugee camp. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Rohingya refugee 13-year-old Rahamot Ullah, his eye bloodied from a bamboo stick that pierced it 10 days earlier while slogging through sewage, poses for a photo. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Noor Kaida, a 17-year-old Rohingya refugee, poses inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
A Rohingya refugee girl sells goods at her stall. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Rohingya refugee children leave their school premises after finishing classes. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Rohingya refugee girls attend a class at their school in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
Mohib Ullah, father of 13-year-old Mohammed, shows his son's schoolbooks inside their shelter in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. [Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo]
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Refugee boat sinks near Malaysia, Thailand; 21 dead, search continues
The boat was carrying dozens of refugees from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority when it sank.
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Malaysia recovers more bodies from capsized Rohingya refugee boat
Malaysian search and rescue teams discovered five more bodies off the coast of Langkawi after a refugee boat capsized.
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Rohingya ask UN ‘where is the justice’ amid Myanmar violence, aid cuts
Rohingya speakers urge the UN not to forget the plight of minorities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and refugee camps.
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Bangladesh issues global call on Rohingya crisis
Dhaka hopes a conference can provide solutions to the aid crisis facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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Two-day meeting gives a glimmer of hope for the Rohingya refugees forced to flee Myanmar crackdown in 2017.
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Myanmar rebels accused of atrocities against Rohingya
Rights groups and survivors are accusing Myanmar’s Arakan Army rebel group of mass killings and torture of Rohingya.
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Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN
The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead.
